“It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.”

– James Douglas

There is a sort of silence that speaks to your soul when you spend time alone in a garden at night.  Removing daylight from the scene transports us to a place that is invisible in the visible daytime world.  It is then that we use the eyes of our soul to truly see the splendor of the world around us.  There is something about the visual aspect of existence that calls us to catalog the differences between ourselves and the universe that contains us.  When we look with eyes that cannot see the physical world, we find ourselves in a universe that expands and calls us to break free of the container and find that we are part of it all.

As we replace the visual with scenes of the darkness, we find that we can see the aromas that rise from the earth and dance on the breeze from flowers and trees.  We can see the breeze as it swirls gently and kisses our face with gentle invisibility.  As the concrete world fades, we find that our thoughts evaporate into invisibility as well.  Soon they are swirling and dancing on the breeze, and we find that the flowers can see our aroma as we lose the containers that separate us and become a part of it all.

What a lovely backdrop for meditation.  What a lovely place to discover the limitless truth of our creation — that we are one with all that is — that we are not bound only by what we can see.  Dance in the darkness of a garden at night.  Feel the breeze blow through your mind and clear out the thoughts that set limitations.  Dance with the universe as you welcome the dawn.